The following are ties Cho had to Islam. They are not offered as proof of anything, but merely to prompt consideration or disproof of any links.

Chos father lived in Saudi Arabia as a young, single man. His sister works for a State Department contractor which oversees billions of dollars of aid for Iraq. Previously, she worked in Bangkok. (1)

Both of Chos plays are about sexual abuse. (2) Bangkok is a city famous for its sex trade, which caters especially to Muslim businessmen.

Chos rampage was on Holocaust Remembrance day. Although probably a happenstance, one of the professors he killed was a Jewish holocaust survivor. (3)

Cho used the pseudonym Ismael Ax. Ismael (or, Ismail) is the son of Abraham who became the ancestor of all Arabs, as opposed to Israel who became ancestor of all Jews (4). Although there are many Western references to this person, and many literary characters named Ishmael, that spelling is Hebraic. Ismael or Ismail is uniquely Arabic. Ismaili is also a branch of Shiite Islam (5)

In each play, Chos characters rant about the horrible decadence of American life. Targets include McDonalds, the Roman Catholic church, Michael Jackson and the NFL. (2).

Cho is from Fairfax County, Virginia. This is also the home of 1 in 8 Virginians, but it is also the home of Yong Ki Kwon, a 29-year-old graduate of Virginia Tech, who, like Cho, is also from South Korea. Kwon was convicted of terrorism, one of the so-called paintball Jihadis, who practiced massacres with paintball guns. (6)

There’s no doubt at all that some of his rantings were violent, hate filled, always blame others, victimhood above reason, similar to the violent, hate filled, always blame others, victimhood above reason of muslims.

2: Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.

3: In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever and influenza ravaged whole nations.

4: More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.

5: Bread is made from a substance called “dough.” It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!

6: Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low occurrence of cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and osteoporosis.

7: Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after only two days.

8: Bread is often a “gateway” food item, leading the user to “harder” items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter and even cold cuts.

9: Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.

10: Newborn babies can choke on bread.

11: Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.

12: Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.

Of course, correlation does not mean causation; however, it is nice to lay out what is known and let facts, logic, and reason take us wherever it may. This is how DanRatherCBSNews was exposed as a fraud in the Bush-National Guard flap.

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posted on 04/19/2007 5:13:20 AM PDT
by MilesVeritatis
(War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things...." - John Stuart Mill)

I do think the Islam connection needs to be investigated—Islamic pseudonym, Holocaust Remembrance Day, anti_American rants, etc., but my assumption is it will turn out to be something his sick mind latched onto as a way of expressing whatever demons and evil were driving him.

There is no doubt that the mindless victimhood mindset of the left will encourage more and more of this grievance theater. The right would do well to develop slogans blaming the liberal mindset for this (something the wussie right can’t seem to do)

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